RT Article
T1 “Living in the Darkness”: Technology-Facilitated Coercive Control, Disenfranchised Grief, and Institutional Betrayal
JF Violence against women
VO 29
IS 5
SP 987
OP 1004
A1 Woodlock, Delanie
A2 Salter, Michael
A2 Dragiewicz, Molly
A2 Harris, Bridget
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1837991103
AB This article draws on interviews with 20 Australian women subjected to technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC), foregrounding their accounts of grief and institutional betrayal. Findings show that while the harms of TFCC were significant, survivors’ experiences were often minimized and dismissed by justice institutions. Women experienced grief due to abuse and separation from partners who had betrayed them. This loss was compounded when seeking help. We propose that disenfranchised grief is an underexplored response to domestic violence and institutional betrayal as well as a potential intervention site, particularly in relation to technology-facilitated abuse.
K1 institutional betrayal
K1 Grief
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 Coercive Control
K1 Technology
DO 10.1177/10778012221114920